It was a big day for NY Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey (above) recently: the first text he ever sent. Why did he feel the need? According to the ABA Journal, the fact that an alternate juror in a manslaughter case got a text from...
[caption id="attachment_1231" align="aligncenter" width="596"] Not in Kansas Anymore?[/caption] Why did the shark bypass the lawyer? Professional courtesy. Makes me think of that oldie but goodie in reading in the ABA Journal about a Kansas lawyer (and former gubernatorial candidate). He appeared before the Kansas Supreme Court last...
A fascinating recent piece in the New York Law Journal talks about the many dismissals of class action cases against US public companies based in China for alleged fraud. The cases say that because these companies' regulatory financial filings in China are sometimes different than the...
Indonesian monkey above left, sorry. The US Copyright Office says the selfies you took in 2011 after grabbing British nature photographer David Slater's camera and snapping hundreds of pictures of yourself (he apparently liked the sound the camera made when taking a picture) does not...
According to Canada's Globe and Mail, the Canadian Bar Association has recommended allowing non-lawyers to be owners of law firms. England has allowed it since 2007, and Australia also has firms owned by non-lawyers. In fact three Australian law firms are publicly held companies. This is not...
In 2001, a group led by OJ Simpson trial attorney Robert Shapiro tried something new. An online site for average folks to inexpensively access legal documents, form a business or make a will. Today LegalZoom is apparently over a $100 million a year business, according...
Centenarian attorney Murray Shusterman Well this one's not a joke! It turns out there's a lawyer at the venerable Fox Rothschild, still going strong, at 101 years old! According to the ABA Journal, Murray Shusterman wants to keep working in his Philadelphia office, with no plans to...
If you are active in business this has probably happened to you at least once. As soon as you hit "send" on an email you realize it went to more people than you intended. If you are lucky it's innocent, if not then someone reads...
In a dramatic and accelerating trend, law school entering classes in the US in 2014 were down 11% from the prior year and 24% over the last 3 years alone. And the applications this year are down another 9%. This represents the smallest total number...
Many people seem confused by the decision of the US Patent & Trademark Office to rescind the registered trademark "Redskins" owned by the Washington football team. So let's try to analyze it in my usual three paragraphs. For those who don't know, there has been...